Press Play with Madeleine Brand
What's the best TV show ever?
Photo: dailyinvention Hundreds, if not thousands, of shows have been made for the small screen since the advent of television – not all of them high quality. But there have been enough great American TV shows by now to cause intense debate over which are the best. Two critics created a comprehensive ranking system to compare hundreds of…
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readPhoto: dailyinvention
Hundreds, if not thousands, of shows have been made for the small screen since the advent of television – not all of them high quality. But there have been enough great American TV shows by now to cause intense debate over which are the best. Two critics created a comprehensive ranking system to compare hundreds of shows. They came up with a canon of the 100 greatest American shows of all time. It’s a new book titled TV (The Book).
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The best TV shows ever, and Chinese food for Christmas- 0:00What's the best TV show ever?You’re reading this
- 17:16Author writes about making today different
- 32:55Reminiscing on the Ramones debut, 40 years later
- 47:38Spending Christmas at LA’s Chinese restaurants
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Jolie Myers
Managing Producer, 'Press Play'
Matt Zoller Seitz
editor at large of RogerEbert.com; writer for New York Magazine; co-author of the book “The Sopranos Sessions”
Alan Sepinwall
TV Critic
The full episode
1 of 4The best TV shows ever, and Chinese food for Christmas- 0:00What's the best TV show ever?You’re reading this
- 17:16Author writes about making today different
- 32:55Reminiscing on the Ramones debut, 40 years later
- 47:38Spending Christmas at LA’s Chinese restaurants